New twist in the Russian survey. Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, asked a judge Tuesday for permission to withdraw his guilty plea from the investigation into the US investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. have not respected the plea agreement that Michael Flynn had made with them because they asked him to provide false testimony, argued attorneys for Donald Trump's former adviser in a flip-flop.
Michael Flynn, 61, pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Sergei Kislyak, who was then Russian ambassador to the United States, during the transition to presidency from Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
He had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
Michael Flynn, a retired general, had only stayed at his post in the Trump administration for 22 days. At the time of his departure, he was under investigation for his contacts with Russians, and he had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the federal criminal investigation and interior intelligence service.
Michael Flynn changed lawyers in June. According to his new counsel, the prosecutors asked him to confess falsely that he had lied by filling out forms with the Ministry of Justice to conceal the work carried out by his lobbying firm for the Turkish state.
This twist comes when Michael Flynn was to be sentenced in two weeks. Any change in plea must be approved by a judge.
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